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NSA Collaboration With DIB Paying Dividends For Cybersecurity In Other Sectors, Joyce Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

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NSA Collaboration With DIB Paying Dividends For Cybersecurity In Other Sectors, Joyce Says

Rob Joyce, director of the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate.

An initiative begun more than a year ago to strengthen cyber partnerships with the national security sector, including the defense industry, is now bolstering cybersecurity in other industry sectors, a National Security Agency (NSA) official said on Wednesday. In the past nine months, the NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, working with information gathered from the defense industrial base (DIB) that in turn has been “married” with signals intelligence (SIGINT) has resulted in “some pretty big activities to disrupt at scale,” Rob…

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